GoFundMe is refunding all donations made to the ‘Fund the Wall’ campaign

Mariana Alfaro, provided by Published 2:15 pm CST, Friday, January 11, 2019 Brian Kolfage/GoFundMe The GoFundMe campaign that was raising money to build a wall along the US-Mexico border did not meet its $1 billion goal, meaning the platform will begin refunding donors. On Friday, Brian Kolfage, who created the fundraiser, updated its GoFundMe page to urge donors to redirect their money to a new “501(c)(4) non-profit Florida Corporation named ‘We Build the Wall, Inc.'” The campaign, created in December, had raised $20 million. The GoFundMe campaign that aimed to raise $1 billion for the border wall is shutting down, and the $20 million raised will be refunded to donors. A GoFundMe spokesman, Bobby Whithorne, told INSIDER that the campaign’s founder, Brian Kolfage, initially promised donors that all donations would be used to pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border, like the one President Donald Trump has proposed, if it met its $1 billion goal. “However, that did not happen,” Whithorne said. “This means all donors will receive a refund.” Kolfage, a US veteran who supports Trump, updated the campaign’s page on Friday announcing the refunds. He said donors could redirect their donations to a new “501(c)(4) non-profit Florida Corporation named ‘We Build the Wall, Inc.'” if they still wished for their money to be used, in one way or another, to build a wall. In his update, Kolfage said he had reached out to several experts in “law, politics, national security, construction, and finance” and created a team that… [Read full story]